Author Archives: Matt Deas

Talking About Lemures

  Hi all, welcome to another episode of Tales From Alamut! They are the smallest units a player can field. Hellish vermin that when fed a particular recipe of ingredients, become individual vessels for your Infernalists to attach spells to. The various Lemures at your disposal play an important part in how effective it’s summoner’s [...]

Tales from Alamut: Company Composition.

Hi all, welcome to another installment of Tales From Alamut! With the conclusion the the Inferno Kickstarter, I’d like to congratulate Kai and Cipher Studios on a job well done. I look forward to my package of goodies later in the year! Following the Kickstarter comments during the project, I saw many contributors that are [...]

Meeting the Factions

Hi everyone, welcome to another Tales From Alamut! With the Kickstarter campaign for Inferno up and running, some questions have been asked about the factions play styles. I’m here to try and  give some insight to help people choose a faction that works for them. The Westerners.   The European invaders have faith in two [...]

Building a Board

Hi all, welcome back to Tales from Alamut for 2013! First off this year I want to go through the steps I have used to construct a new Hell Dorado game board. Up until now most of my games have been played on a modular board, which is a great way to model cool looking [...]

Tales From Alamut: Into 2013

  Hi everyone and welcome to the last DeCiphered of the year! As we approach the holidays and some much needed time off (in the sun for us Southern Hemisphere dwellers!), I have started cataloging some of my hobby projects that have fallen by the wayside in the hope that three weeks off might allow [...]

Saracens vs Lost Part III

  Hello again everyone! Welcome to the last installment of Rory’s and my battle report. We pick up the action at the top of turn 3 with the Saracens down three Conquest Points……

Saracens vs Lost. Part II

Hi again everyone, welcome to the second installment of Rory’s and my battle report. Saracens vs Lost. You can find the first part here. So onto the action….. Once we had finished deployment, we took a moment to think our moves through.

Skirmish in the Circle of Kohut, Part One

Hi all! Welcome to this weeks installment of Tales From Alamut. Today Rory and I get stuck in to our battle report. My Saracens versus Rory’s recently finished Lost company. Domination To begin,we calculated our Domination; Rory edged me slightly with a Domination of 16 versus my score of 15. Due to the presence of [...]

Composing a Company

  Welcome to this week’s installment of Tales From Alamut! If you have been following Rory’s Circle of Hell articles as he has built and painted his Lost company, you will know that his company is nearing completion. In honour of this momentous occasion, we are going to feature their first fully painted battle here. [...]

Andre de Montbard Part 3

  Hi all and welcome to another installment of Tales From Alamut, this week I am going to be continuing with the paint job on Andre de Montbard.   My next step was to start plugging away at the clothing on the mini….     As a general rule, working ‘from the inside out’ on [...]